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Rights defender Hillel Neuer slams China for atrocities against Uighurs
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): Human Right Defender Hillel Neuer tore into China at the United Nations Human Right Councils (UNHRC) for its massive human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province and slammed countries who backed Beijing by turning a blind eye towar
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US House approves bill to ban imports from China's Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): The US House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation that would effectively ban imports from China's Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region due to the suspected use of state-sponsored forced labour there.
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Growing calls for UN to probe gross human rights violations in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], August 30 (ANI): As China continues with its massive human rights abuses in Xinjiang, there have been growing calls for a probe by UN commission into the relentless oppression of Uighur Muslims.
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'US doesn't recognise Chinese Communist Party as legitimate system of gove
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): A senior US diplomat has said the Donald Trump administration does not consider the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a "legitimate system" of governance.
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Muslim Uighurs are forcibly put in concentration camps in China: Hashim Qu
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], August 01 (ANI): M Hashim Qureshi, Chairman of J-K Democratic Liberation Party, has highlighted the treatment meted by the Chinese Communist Party to Muslim and Christians, saying Muslim Uighurs are put in concentration camps in Xinjiang province.
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US shutting China's Houston consulate aimed at reducing Beijing's espionag
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], July 29 (ANI): The shutting down of the Chinese consulate in Houston indicates that the US is likely making it an example in order to achieve its goal of a reduction in Beijing's espionage activities without taking even harsher measures, such as shuttering its San Franci
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China, the artless dodger
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Hong Kong, July 29 (ANI): China's military transgressions along the Line of Actual Control with India might have brought immediate tactical territorial gains, but it has lost a lot more strategically in terms of trust and goodwill. Beijing's responses have also reinforced the fact that its l
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France demands free entry of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Xinj
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Paris [France], July 22 (ANI): French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian has demanded free entry of international independent observers and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to China's western province of Xinjiang, home to about one million Uighurs.
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Beijing faces criticism for human rights violations in Xinjiang
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], July 21 (ANI): During a hearing before the House of Commons human-rights subcommittee, several experts called out China for human rights violation in Xinjiang where Beijing has locked up millions of Uyghurs.
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US sanctions additional 11 Chinese firms over human rights violations in X
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 21 (ANI): The United States on Monday (local time) announced sanctions against a new group of 11 Chinese companies for their alleged involvement in human rights violations in China's western province of Xinjiang, home to about 1 million Uighurs Muslims.
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Beijing's nationalist push to build support for CCP has stoked tensions wi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], July 18 (ANI): Beijing's nationalist push to shore up support for the ruling Chinese Communist Party has stoked tensions with Washington, Jessica Chen Weiss has said.
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'US election shaping up as contest between which candidate hates China mor
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 18 (ANI): As relations between Washington and Beijing worsen over a range of issues, the upcoming US election is shaping up as a contest between which candidate hates China more, suggests William Pesek.
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